Week

Topic

Content and Reading Assignment

Teaching Activities and Homework

Student workload expectation

In-class Hours

Outside-of-class Hours

W1 - Sept 02

Introduction & SM Data

Syllabus Review / Intro. to SM / Data Collection and Data Management 1/2

Note 1/2: Dates to participate in full/half-day workshops, held on Saturday (2~3 times), will be determined and announced soon. Note 2/2: The entire course is designed to provide a total of 54 hours of learning time (16×3 + 6 hours) for the students.

ASN Chs 1, 4

3

4.5

W2 - Sept 09

SM Data

Data Collection and Data Management 2/2

ASN Chs  5

3

4.5

W3 - Sept 16 from 1:10 ~ 2:00 lecture and then Guest Talk from 2:30

Perspectives of SM and Interaction Design

Research Design

(TBD free lunch) Sept15, 12:10~1:30  special talk delivered by Emeritus Prof. Dr. Lorna Uden from the Dept. of Computing, School of Digital, Tec. Innovation and Business, The Uni. of Staffordshire, UK

ASN Ch3

3

4.5

W4 - Sept 23

Visualization

ASN Ch7

3

4.5

W5 - Sept 30

Interactivity Design Essentials (1/2)

ID Chs 3~7

3

4.5

W6 - Oct 07

Mid-Autumn Festival (NO CLASS)

Group project proposal (video links or PPT recordings)

Online resources

0

9

W7 - Oct 14

Perspectives of SM and Evaluation

Interactivity Design Essentials (2/2)

ID Chs 10~14

3

4.5

W8 - Oct 21

*Intro. to Inferential Statistics

ASN Ch14

3

4.5

W9 - Oct 28

Guest Talk (ITMA-Ostfalia 1028): Topic to be announced

also, ICAE International Conference 1213

3

4.5

W10 - Nov 03

Perspectives of SM and Statistics

Local/Group Node-level Measures

ASN Chs 8, 10

3

4.5

W11 - Nov 10

Centrality

ASN Ch 9

3

4.5

W12 - Nov 17

Subgroups and Community Detection

ASN Ch11

3

4.5

W13 - Nov 24

Equivalence

ASN Ch12

3

4.5

W14 - Dec 01

AI-Powered SM Marketing

Content Creation

Online resources

3

4.5

W15 - Dec 08

Engagement and Insights

3

4.5

W16 - Dec 15

Course Review and Conclude / Learning Feedback and Reflection

Group project presentation (video links or PPT recordings)

3

4.5